Re[2]: Flame Wars

[Richard Welty <rwelty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 29 May 2003 07:45:04 +0000 (GMT) greg@domain.elided wrote:
> I hope Richard will continue to allow the initial posts on topics like
> these. And if the matter pertains to someone on the AD, then allow that
> person a rebuttal message. Assuming everyone doesn't chime in with a "me
> too" on either side of these issues, Richard won't need to step in.

that's pretty much my plan, although i'm not sure everyone will be able to
resist the urge to chime in or  prolong the argument.
 
> Another common solution would be for someone to create a vendor FAQ and
> perhaps Richard could include a reference to the FAQ in his FAQ, or
> include the vendor ifnormation in his FAQ.

i'd be _extremely_ wary of anything that looks like official alfa-digest
sanction for something like this; it sounds like a very risky thing for the
digest to be involved in. one litigation minded vendor who gets negative
reviews in such a FAQ, and the digest is over and done with. i don't know
that we have any such vendors around, but i'd rather not find out the hard
way.

if someone were to start a vendor FAQ, i'd probably not object to
occasional mention of its existence, but that's about as far as i'd be
willing to go.

richard
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Richard Welty                                         rwelty@domain.elided
Averill Park Networking                                         518-573-7592
              Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security
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